US officials released the Sarah Palin's Alaska governor e-mails ......

Journalists are poring through 24,000 pages of former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin's e-mails, after they were released by officials in the US state.

News organisations first requested the move in 2008, when she was chosen from relative obscurity to become the Republican vice-presidential candidate.

US Defence Secretary Gates said that most NATO countries lack military capabilities...

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates delivered a sharp parting shot at European allies on Friday, saying NATO risks “collective military irrelevance” unless they bear more of the burden and boost military spending.

In a final policy address before retiring at the end of the month, Gates said NATO-led operations in Afghanistan and Libya had exposed significant shortcomings in military capabilities and political will among the allies.

NATO air strikes on Libya......

NATO warplanes are seen again in a bombing raid on the Libyan capital Tripoli on Friday.

The air strike was made on Tripoli, soon after Western and Arab powers promised more than $1 billion to help Libyan rebels fighting to end Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi s four-decade rule. Libyan state media said NATO warplanes had also pummelled a town west of Tripoli.